Polyandry in coal tits Parus ater: fitness consequences of putting eggs into multiple genetic baskets
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Evolution of enlarged body size of coal tits Parus ater in geographic isolation from two larger competitors, the crested tit Parus cristatus and the willow tit Parus montanus, on six Scandinavian islands
Here, we report that on six widely separated Scandinavian islands, the coal tit Parus ater has evolved morphologically in the direction of two absent competitors, the crested tit P. cristatus and the willow tit P. montanus, to the effect that it is up to 10% larger in linear dimensions than conspecifics on the adjacent Swedish mainland, where all three species coexist. The large size is genetic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1010-061X,1420-9101
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01288.x